Liya Weldegebriel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering with Designated Emphasis in Development Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Liya’s research broadly links ecohydrology and ecosystem services. Her Ph.D. work addressed technical challenges of adopting and upscaling soil and water conservation practices by developing low-cost performance evaluation methods and synthesizing field investigations in hydrological models to predict effective interventions in the Ethiopian Highlands. Her current research projects include using remotely sensed ecohydrological data to assess the impact of armed conflict on agricultural food production and monitor efficiency of conservation practices in Ethiopia.